Two amazing dinners celebrating the bounty of the Spring marketplace and the warm sunny days to come. I recently took my Wife out on a date night to ENOSteak, which is the steakhouse at the Ritz Carlton Hotel here in Orange County. But first, I’d like to take a moment and discuss the importance of …Read More

Roasting meat (beef, chicken, lamb, pork, and fish) is one of my favorite cooking styles and it’s nearly mandatory at the Sunday Supper Feast. This recipe adds a delicious savory herb breadcrumb crust to this roast beef. The crust seasons and flavors the meat while at the same time protecting it and making sure the …Read More

Today is the greatest Feast Day and religious celebration of Christianity and the Mediterranean! As a Catholic Christian today is a major holiday as I celebrate the Resurrection of Christ and I want to wish everyone a very happy and wonderful day. Here’s a great post sharing the biblical events of Easter. All across the …Read More

We have arrived at the Easter Week and homestretch to the great Fasting Season of Lent. Lent is a 40 day period leading up to Easter Sunday that is a time of penance, fasting, prayer and charity; I always see this time as a Detox for the Soul and Body. I’ve written about some very …Read More

The Best Chocolate Cake In The Universe! The cake is rich, moist and very fluffy – just like a French Souffle only without the stress. The Wife came up with this amazing recipe for Chocolate Cake for a recent Sunday Supper – it was a massive hit and all the guests couldn’t get enough! This simple …Read More

Today’s Sunday Supper is an ode the amazing Filet Mignon steaks I bought when I visited the new Whole Foods store in Laguna Niguel. The best way to celebrate out of this world meat is with a BBQ! The menu was inspired by the Country Farmhouse and Rancho cooking of Spain. The Spanish “cowboy” culture …Read More

Quick easy and delicious! Those are the kinds of adjectives I like to see on a healthy vegetable side dish that’s perfect for weekday cooking when you get home exhausted after a long day and a commute. Normally I cook down my spinach until it has reduced in volume by nearly 90% but this dish …Read More

The Essential Question of Our Age Which will you choose? Sick Care or Health Care? We have to realize that every single day we make a choice with the foods we place into our bodies rather we will feed sickness & disease or health & wellness. This is a choice only we can make and …Read More

Here we have a quick last minute addition to a recent Sunday Supper that came out wonderfully and ended up being a huge hit! The natural sweetness from the honey and the carrots mixed with smokey caramelization and then the last minute addition of chopped pecans giving an amazing crunch leaves you wanting more and …Read More

This is a super delicious and healthy dish that could be a side for a large formal meal like Easter/Thanksgiving/Christmas, etc… But I normally serve this as a quick & easy main dish during the week or when I’m in the mood for something lighter like during Lent. The dish itself could be considered a …Read More

I’ve spent the last week feasting and enjoying some of the most delicious and amazing foods! Carnevale and its ultimate culmination with Mardi Gras is a time of great partying and celebration, one last hurrah before the season of fasting and abstinence of Lent. The Carnevale Feast Season started last Friday and continues through today. …Read More

This is my take on a classic Mardi Gras and Creole recipe. The dish literally means smothered shrimp and it’s basically a quick shrimp braise in a spicy tomato sauce – And It Is Delicious! The recipe is very famous because of New Orleans but the roots of the dish can be traced back …Read More

Let the Carnevale 2014 begin! For me this weekend typically begins the Carnevale celebration which is the feast season leading up to the beginning of Lent and it culminates with Mardi Gras on Tuesday. I’m lucky enough to have been here in the Sonoma Wine Country for a few days so before heading back I …Read More

My Mediterranean Lifestyle Journey – 2 Month Check Up A couple months in and I’m feeling great and it’s getting better everyday! There have been some ups and some downs and most of all I am still at the beginning of what is truly a lifelong journey. At the beginning of the year I dived …Read More